Singer says he will not perform in Israel while Benjamin Netanyahu remains in power, eight years after Radiohead defied criticism to perform in Tel Aviv
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has said he would not now perform in Israel, eight years after the band defied pro-Palestinian activists to play a show in Tel Aviv.
“Absolutely not. I wouldn’t want to be 5,000 miles anywhere near the Netanyahu regime,” he told the Sunday Times magazine, referring to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
US treasury secretary anticipates tariff truce with China will be extended, and that China will revive substantial purchases of US soybeans
The US and China have agreed a framework for a trade deal just days before Donald Trump and Chines president Xi Jinping are due to meet.
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said the agreement, forged on the sidelines of the Association of south-east Asian Nations (Asean) summit in Malaysia on Sunday, would remove the threat of the imposition of 100% tariffs on Chinese imports starting on 1 November and include “a final deal” on the sale of TikTok in the US.
As Cop30 approaches, a new report makes it clear the survival of isolated tribes is under threat as protections are eroded. It’s time our countries fulfilled their obligations to defend Indigenous people
A new report published on Monday by the NGO Survival International reveals 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups across 10 countries in South America, Asia, and the Pacific, according to a five-year study titled Uncontacted peoples: At the edge of survival. Half of these groups – tens of thousands of people – face extinction within a decade due to industrial activity, criminal gangs and missionary incursions, with logging, mining and agribusiness cited as the primary threats.
The report also warns that even indirect contact, such as disease spread by outsiders, could devastate populations, while the climate crisis and illegal activities further endanger their survival.
Marshals ran across track clearing debris at Mexico GP
‘I nearly hit one of them, honestly, it was so dangerous’
Liam Lawson issued a damning broadside after he narrowly missed hitting two marshals on track at the Mexico City Grand Prix, warning that he could have killed them and branding it dangerous and unacceptable.
In the race which was won in dominant form by McLaren’s Lando Norris, the Racing Bulls driver had started in 15th place but took damage on the opening lap and made an immediate pit stop.
Actor played Adam Chance in soap opera from 1978 to 1988 and also appeared in General Hospital and Doctor Who
Tributes have been paid to the Welsh actor Tony Adams, who has died at the age of 84.
He was best-known for playing the accountant Adam Chance on the British daytime soap opera Crossroads, which at its peak attracted audiences of above 15 million.
Bowler resumes running but will not make series opener in Perth
32-year-old says he ‘expects to return to bowling shortly’
Pat Cummins is officially out of the first Ashes Test as he continues his recovery from a stress injury in his back, with Steve Smith to reassume the captaincy of Australia in the series opener against England next month.
Cummins has not bowled since Australia’s 3-0 series defeat of West Indies in July and had been in serious doubt for the match in Perth on 21 November. After months of speculation over whether he would recover in time, Cricket Australia on Monday finally confirmed that the quick would have to sit out the game at Optus Stadium.
Jets come back from 14-point deficit in fourth quarter
Costly injuries blight Eagles’ win over Giants
Breece Hall rushed for two second-half touchdowns and threw a four-yard TD pass to Mason Taylor with 1:54 left, helping the New York Jets edge the Cincinnati Bengals for their first win of the season.
Ministers hope to secure a deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council that could add £1.6bn to the UK economy
Rachel Reeves will lead a delegation of senior business leaders to Saudi Arabia on Monday as she hopes to deepen the UK’s relationship with a state that has been widely criticised for human rights abuses.
She is the first UK chancellor to visit the Gulf in six years and is expected to meet senior Saudi royals, US administration representatives and global business figures.
Nearly 25,000 households were without power in south-east Queensland on Monday morning after a severe thunderstorm passed over the state, with wind gusts topping 109km/h. Residents have reported giant hailstones of up to 7cm in some areas.
Nearly 1,000 energy customers in Victoria also woke without power, after Melbourne recorded its wettest day in a year and a half.
Leclerc second; Verstappen third and Piastri fifth
Norris now one point clear in championship battle
If timing is key in any race, Lando Norris might just have taken the bell with absolutely impeccable judgment. His victory at the Mexico City Grand Prix with a consummate drive from pole to flag has catapulted him into the lead of an intense title fight at exactly the right moment. Norris has momentum at the very point the championship enters its decisive phase.
With his title rivals Oscar Piastri – Norris’s McLaren teammate – managing only fifth and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen third at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Norris has the edge at a crucial juncture with four meetings remaining. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finished in second, while Britain’s Oliver Bearman took a career-best fourth place with a superb drive for Haas.
This ghost-hunting docuseries around various ‘haunted’ locations is a deeply flimsy premise. But you cannot fake the kind of chemistry this brother and sister have
The last time I reviewed something with Charlie Cooper in as “himself”, he, or “he”, was visiting folkloric hotspots around the British Isles as the presenter of Myth Country. I was beguiled by the impossibility of identifying where his most famous creation, Kurtan, in the brilliant, heartbreaking comedy This Country, written by Charlie and his sister Daisy May, left off and the real Cooper began. Or, if you prefer, where the real Cooper left off and Kurtan began. What were we to make of him listening with apparently genuine delight on his face to a man playing an old local tune on a recorder before announcing with perfect Kurtanish sensibility and timing that it was because: “In the wrong hands, it’s murder”? He watched with admiration as a friend with a divining rod approached and re-approached some ancient stones near – but, crucially not actually part of – the historic Avebury site of neolithic monuments. “I dread to think how long he’d be here doing that,” Cooper/Kurtan whispered to camera. “He’s light years ahead of his time.” Then a quintessentially Kurtanish worried pause. “Or light years behind his time.”
I have pondered Fractal Cooper – genius? Poet? Muppet who’s right twice a day? – in many a quiet moment since. So I welcomed the chance to dwell with him awhile again in Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s NightWatch, a slice of Halloween schedule-filler in which he and Daisy – who plays Kurtan’s more, uh, limited cousin Kerry in the sitcom – spend the night in different spooky locations in the hope of being visited by ghosts, an ambition they have shared since their Ouija board-playing games as children. And while I cannot say yet that I have the measure of the man, whose essence is perhaps as uncapturable as the spectres they seek, it becomes possible to conjecture that there are at least two threads running through both artist and invention.
Nightwatch aired on BBC Two and is available on iPlayer.
Judge of prestigious award says two best collection winners ‘address the urgent challenges of our time’
Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie have been named joint winners of this year’s Forward prize for best collection, one of the UK’s most prestigious poetry awards, marking the first time in the prize’s history the honour has been shared.
Ravinthiran, who was born in Leeds to Sri Lankan Tamil parents and now lives in the US, was recognised for Avidyā. The collection is described as having emerged from “journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries”. The Canadian poet Solie shared the prize for Wellwater, a “self-interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a natural world on the brink”.
Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’
British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco international airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) says that action is apparent retaliation for the Muslim political commentator’s criticism of Israel while touring the US.
A statement from Cair said it was “a blatant affront to free speech” to detain Hamdi for criticizing Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza while he engaged on a speaking tour in the US. A Trump administration official added in a separate statement that Hamdi is facing deportation.
Police release CCTV footage after man described as white and in his 30s attacked woman in her 20s in Park Hall area
An urgent police appeal has been launched to identify a man believed to have raped a woman in a racially aggravated attack.
West Midlands police were called to the Park Hall area of Walsall just after 7.15pm on Saturday after a woman was reported to be distressed in the street.
Manager says City in title hunt despite six-point gap
Erling Haaland’s injury not expected to be serious
Pep Guardiola said it was too early for Manchester City to fret about Arsenal’s superb start to the Premier League season, and that his team were alive in their pursuit of reclaiming the title despite a 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa on Sunday.
City trail Arsenal by six points after nine games but Guardiola is relaxed about the gap. “We have to try to close [it], Arsenal have been solid for many years, this time the concern is how we can improve – better, better, better – and to be close,” the City manager said.
Latest win takes Arsenal four points clear at the top
Arteta’s side now have seven-point lead over Liverpool
Mikel Arteta hailed Arsenal’s 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace as the most valuable of the season after seeing his side open up a four-point lead at the Premier League’s summit.
In what was a nervous Sunday afternoon at the Emirates Stadium, Eberechi Eze’s powerful first-half shot against his former club proved to be the winner. With Liverpool slipping to a fourth straight league defeat at Brentford on Saturday, Arsenal finished the weekend seven points clear of the defending champions.
Book cites Pence’s notes from call with Trump, who called vice-president a ‘wimp’ if he certified Biden’s 2020 victory
On the day that his supporters attacked the US Capitol because his 2020 re-election run ended in defeat, Donald Trump called his vice-president at the time, Mike Pence, and told him he would go down in history as a “wimp” if he certified the election result, a new book says.
Those details were revealed on Sunday when ABC News published a preview excerpt of an upcoming book by its political correspondent Jonathan Karl. The book, titled Retribution, cites Pence’s notes from the 6 January 2021 phone call with Trump, who was purportedly trying to shame his vice-president into refusing to certify Joe Biden’s victory weeks earlier in the White House.
It’s good! But Carolina come out on top as Buffalo settle for a field goal. Josh Allen successfully scrambles around once but on the second effort is sacked on 3rd and 5. Not the end of the world but a cheap penalty forced Allen to put on his dancing shoes after an illegal formation penalty. Matt Prater knocks in the 43-yard field goal.
Transportation secretary says figure is ‘one of the highest we’ve seen’ since 1 October as shutdown drags on
US airports have reported more than 20 incidents of air traffic controller shortages on Saturday, said Sean Duffy, transportation secretary, in the latest sign of the government shutdown’s impact.
A ground stop was issued by the agency at Los Angeles international airport due to the air traffic controller staffing shortages at around 11.30am ET (15.30 GMT). The restriction covered most of the southern California region and delays are likely when flights resume.
19-year-old wing scored five tries on first Prem start
Borthwick has picked 36-player squad for four matches
Noah Caluori, the 19-year-old Saracens wing, has been named in England’s autumn internationals squad by Steve Borthwick.
Caluori burst on to the Prem scene by scoring five tries against Sale on 18 October and, as England gear up for a busy November featuring four Tests, Borthwick has called up the uncapped youngster after initially inviting him to a training camp last week. The 36-player squad, including 19 forwards and 17 backs, gathered at Pennyhill Park in Surrey on Sunday night.
Health secretary urges party to take Caerphilly result to heart as Lucy Powell gets to work as deputy leader
Senior Labour figures including Wes Streeting have said the government must show optimism and that it is bringing about change after losing a Welsh Senedd byelection amid rising concern about midterm fatigue and a loss of momentum.
The health secretary warned that the party must counter a “growing sense of despair” and show voters tangible proof of change after its defeat last week in Caerphilly, a town that had been Labour for more than 100 years.
Tottenham’s aerial prowess under Thomas Frank brought Everton back down to earth at Hill Dickinson Stadium. Three headed goals condemned Everton to a first defeat at their new home and elevated Spurs to third in the Premier League. A correction of their home form and Frank’s team can contemplate staying up there.
The disconnect at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium stands in stark contrast to the ruthless efficiency and resilience of Spurs away from home. Victory on the banks of the River Mersey made it 13 points from a possible 15 on the road. The outstanding Micky van de Ven led the way.
One armed person detained as historically Black school shooting comes amid rising violence at homecoming events
At least one person was killed and six others wounded in a shooting at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania late on Saturday, as students and alumni celebrated homecoming at outdoor festivities at the historically Black university, authorities said.
A person who had a firearm was detained, and officials are investigating the possibility that there was more than one shooter but don’t believe there is any active threat to the campus, Chester county’s district attorney, Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe, said during a brief news conference early on Sunday.
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